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CHRISTIAN CONvEETIO
MORNING SESSION.

| MORNING SESSION.
| At 10 a. nj. the convention opened, Rev.
DR.. Brooks presiding. After singing and
prayer, Dr. 3. read Cor. 2.
Rev.'S. B. Fleming of Arkansas City,
opened the subject, The person and work OF
the Holy Spirit as found in the old tesla
ment."
The personality of the Holy Spirit is clear
" shown in that the personal pronouns l.,
you, him, are applied to Him. Acts ascribed
to Jehovah are ascribed to the Holy Spirit.
Tbs great mission of the Holy Spirit in the
Old Testament is to bring order out Of chaos
He is the author of all life, vegetable and an
imal, and also of our physical frame. The
gift Of prophecy to foretell events, to speak
for another, are due TO Him. He guided the
organs of mems bodies in the discharge of
their work He governed in the communi-
cation of new truth. He prepared me to re-
| ceive bis messages, All the miracles are due
to the holy spirit. Political gifts and en-
doyments were bestowed by the Spirit for
special work He impaired moral qualities
| and VII tues also intellectual gifts. He made
the services Of the tabernacle and temple &C.
ceptable to God.
He convinced men of sin, lei them back
to God and spake through all the writers OF
the Old Testament.
Rev. F. d. Symmes OF Florence, opened
the question, Person and Work of the Holy
Spirit as found in the New Testament" three
proofs Of his personality, the formula of
baptism, the apostolic benediction, the re-
mark of Peter to Annanias that he had lied
TO the Holy Ghost.
He couvicts and converts sinners. Gives
believers joy, peace, comfort, power and
influence to save others.
The magnitude of the work of the spirit,
not only projecting but attending to all the
details of creation and of our lives His
ability to do this proves his divinity.
His work is to reveal Christ, not himself.
He gives US all grace through the Word.
In answer to question DR.. B. said the
holy spirit does everything in the way Of
power in the o. T. that he does in the N. T.
In the O. T. we never read of the spirit be-
ing in believers-he came upon them.
Christ refers again and again to what is
written in the O. 7. as an end to all contro-
versy.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The subject was the inspiration in the Old
and New Testiments. Rev. s. R. Anderson
read paper on the Inspiration Of the o. I.
The word of God claims to be the word of
God. In the first chapter Of the Bible it is
eleven times recorded 'God said" Eighteen
out of twenty seven chapters in Leviticus
and twenty cut of thirty-six chapters in
Numbers begin with formula, "The Lord
spake unto Moses saying" Deut closes with
the testimony of Noses. that God had spoke
all these words Joshua closes his book with
the assersion that the Lord spakc these words.
David testifes thst ''the spirit Of the Lord
spake by me aud His word was in my
tongue" Another evidence of Gods pres
ence in the words of the servants is seen in
his presence in their works the miracles they
performed.
With reference to the N. T., on three sepa-
rate occasions Jesus told his disciples not to
take the slightest concern about what they
would say-the holy spirit would tell them
what In Acts "a we see the fulfillment Of
this promise; tae Observation-Disclosures fisher
men-get up and speak in fifteen different
languages.
Paul says we speak words which tho Holy
Ghost teacneth-and put his own word on
the same level, if authority as Christ's words
In answer 10 question Dr. B. said: God is
master of all styles Of writing and gave each
man the very words he uttered or wrote. No
objection 60 verbal inspiration suggested by
our reason ought not to hold against the
positive assertion of Gods word. When
ever have found q minister rejecting the
verbal inspiration Of Gods word. have
seen it was not long until he drifted away
and ceased to be faithful witness for Christ.
A few extrscts from the writings Of emf
nent scholars were given.